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Reference number

SM D1/4/35

Purpose

Stratton Park, Hampshire, 1803-07

Aspect

[128] Details of fret and a plain fringe-like ornament corresponding to [SM D1/4/8]

Scale

full size

Inscribed

as above, Part of Egyptian Chimney for Hall of communication Stratton Park, Center Line (twice) and (verso, Dance) Moldings & parts at large / Egyptian chimney-piece / Hall of communication / Stratton
Signed: GD
Dated: Decr 1804

Signed and dated

  • 1803-07

Medium and dimensions

Black and brown pen, sepia wash, pencil, watercolour technique on laid paper (670 x 1030)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

D & C Blauw IV and D&CBxX in cartouche surmounted by fleur-de-lis

Notes

This is one of many examples of a full-size working detail by Dance that suggests his enjoyment of design and drawing as well as an identification with the craftsman and his materials and tools.

National Monuments Record photographs (1951) show that the Egyptian chimney-piece has been removed at some time.

Level

Drawing

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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.


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